Bernadette Soubirous was born at Boly Mill in Lourdes on January 7, 1844. After a happy childhood, she was struck by hardship, illness and (...) Read…Bernadette
In Lourdes, on Thursday February 11, 1858, it was very cold. In the cachot, the fire in the fireplace had gone out. The wood gathered the day (...) Read…Bernadette
On Thursday February 11, 1858, at Massabielle Grotto, a “lady dressed in white” appeared to Bernadette Soubirous. It was on March 25, (...) Read…Lourdes
The discovery of the tomb of James the Greater at the beginning of the 9th century, near Iria Flavia at the north-west of the Iberian peninsula, (...) Read…The Roads to Santiago
The Cistercian adventure began in the year 1098, when Robert of Molesme, Alberic and Stephen Harding, prompted by the desire to return to the (...) Read…The Cistercians
In the first centuries of our era, Christian dogma slowly developed. Those who moved away from it, heretics, were excluded from the Church and (...) Read…The Cathars
The Order of the Knights Templar was founded in Jerusalem in 1119, after the First Crusade and the creation of the Latin Kingdoms of the East, to (...) Read…The Templars
In 1098, Robert of Molesme founded, in a place called Cistels, his New Monastery. After difficult beginnings the Order of Cistercians, with the (...) Read…The Cistercians
For having tried, like “good Christians”, to explain that Evil could not possibly have sprung from a divine source, the Cathars, (...) Read…The Cathars
A period of 13.7 billion years separates the Big Bang from the Bronze Age. Galaxies, stars and planets were then engendered. And on Earth, where (...) Read…Prehistory